232 Mr. J. S. Baly's descriptions of CryptocepTialidcB. 



isTi-white, narrowly edged with piceous. Elytra very 

 slightly broader than the base of the thorax, sides only 

 slightly lobed; above convex, thickened on the basal 

 margin and immediately around the scutellum; strongly 

 punctate-striate, the striae sulcate, piceous, contorted below 

 the scutellum and again on the median line of the outer 

 disk ; in this latter place they are very irregular and much 

 interrupted; interspaces smooth, impunctate, slightly 

 thickened, white, with a faint yellowish tinge ; below the 

 scutellum and in the middle of the outer disk they are 

 separated by the contortions of the strige into irregular 

 ■white patches, the most conspicuous of which are ; one 

 trigonate and distinctly thickened, placed on the sutural 

 margin, just below the scutellum, and a second on the 

 outer disk, also trigonate, its base placed on the extreme 

 lateral stria, and its apex extended rather more than a 

 third across the disk; the apices of the elytra smooth and 

 entirely free from punctures. Body beneath sparingly 

 clothed with griseous hairs, pale fusco-piceous, marked 

 here and there with ill-defined white patches. 



Closely allied to P. clathratus, Suffr. The thorax 

 broader and more distinctly punctured. 



